How much do your vet bills amount to?

[parsley]

I despair of my horse - currently vets bills each month amount to between £100 and this month £345

What do other people's horses cost?

 

[EquestrianFairy]

From July its been £800 and counting!

 

[Shilasdair]

I can top that for just one of my three girlies - vet bill £3950 this year.
Ha!
S

 

[Tempi]

Mine has been around £800 since April, but then Bloss was AI'd at the Vets, so it was all the AI fees and scans etc.....

 

[parsley]

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I can top that for just one of my three girlies - vet bill £3950 this year.
Ha!
S

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The £100 a month ignores the £1800 for tooth removal and £3500 for a bone flap so ha! back - and hes not worth nearly that much!!!

Damm - that just makes me stupid

However - I am glad to see other people have huge vet bills - people at the yard tease me that their horses cost about £5 a month

 

[jumpthemoon]

n the last two years I've spent about £7000 on vet bills - my last horse had a hobday & tieback and my latest horse fractured his splint bone! Speaking of vet bills, I have an invoice I need to pay that I'd forgotten about *dashes off to pay invoice*

 

[Halfstep]

Around the 2K mark this year so far. But that does include surgery and a five day stay at the vets hospital. Praying we've seen the end of gigantic vets bills for a while.

 

[Blackhawk]

Since April about £1400 this includes having my boy PTS.

 

[the watcher]

In the last year, including a spot of AI and some slightly more complicated dental work, I am at just under £1000 between 3 of them- but that was just routine stuff, no injuries, no illnesses

 

[parsley]

I am definatly going to make sure my kids decide who will be the vet and who will be the farrier tonight!

They know these have to be their careers but we need to start working on it - ones 5 years and ones 9 so theres plenty of time to get it right.

 

[Gorgeous George]

In the 6mths I have had George £300, but that is routine stuff, vaccinations, teeth, back etc. No illness/injury - touchs lots of wood.

 

[Hannah17]

doesnt the insurence pay for it?

 

[parsley]

Insurance doesn't pay for routine care - for my horse most of my bills are for things that are excluded on my policy

 

[Jo C]

In the last two years mine has been about £8k for one horse, I currently have a bill of £1200 since September. Whoever said Connemaras were hardy types was lying!

 

[zigzag]

£950 so far for the mare
£300 so far for sunbeam
£ around 250 for Cadog yesterday

 

[Shilasdair]

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I can top that for just one of my three girlies - vet bill £3950 this year.
Ha!
S

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The £100 a month ignores the £1800 for tooth removal and £3500 for a bone flap so ha! back - and hes not worth nearly that much!!!

Damm - that just makes me stupid

However - I am glad to see other people have huge vet bills - people at the yard tease me that their horses cost about £5 a month

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Ok, so you trumped mine. If this is a competition, I'd be happy to lose

S

 

[zoesophie]

Almost £5,000 since this time last year!

Thankfully hes fixed now

 

[Daisychain]

About £300.00 in the last 12 months, just vaccinations and things really, i have two T.B. and 2 ponies! Mind you i am quite efficient at managing most things myself.

 

[cheeky girl]

I've had a nasty couple of months with horse and dog.
Horse insurance paid £1278 I owe £600
Dog £1800 not insured ouch

 

[Quarrybank]

This year apart from routine stuff I've had £3400 for Spiders Strangles (he was very ill with it & needed to be hopitalised) but thankfully the insurance paid all but the £500 excess.
Plus he had a tieback & Hobday last month & when I spoke to them today my bill stood at £2000 & he hasn't been back for his 5 week check up yet & I think I'll be paying it all myself

Thankfully Q has behaved himself this year, but he's had his moments over the years

Tell me again why we have them?

 

[JadeWisc]

I have less than $700 in vet bills for my horses this past year and I have had between three and four horses at a time in my care since last January

but now my inexpensive vet is leaving the horse world

(see above post)

so who knows what I will say next year

 

[shelly018]

Since May, when I got my chap, I've spend £7.54 on some anti-biotic cream.

Have no doubt it will be much more next year.

 

[cyearsley]

In the last 18 months or so my insurance company has paid out £4000+ vets bills plus loss of animal £1500 plus contribution towards disposal £250 (i think) for my last lovely boy and then nearly £2000 for costs for my new neddy who did a tendon 5 months ago.......I know we all pay our premiums but would recommend NFU to anyone and they are also quick at paying compared to the others.

 

[RachelB]

I paid £3000 for my horse, then eight months later paid the same again. Luckily I'm insured to £5000 though so all I had to pay was the excess and half of the MRI bill. That was all for her torn tendon, and also for two seperate endoscope examinations to check her airways. My god anyone would think she's a racehorse with me saying that - she's the exact opposite of a racehorse, but with all the injuries/ ailments thrown in!

 

[Fairynuff]

I have the luxury of being the yard owner and...(whispers) I get my vet treatment for almost free

, I pay the cost of the jabs or whatever and the callout fee is free. My boy was admitted to the clinic where I worked for a suspected torsion and I payed 200 euros -there were 3 vets to see to him plus tubing, blood tests, medicines etc and an overnight stay.So far Ive been lucky.

 

[jojoebony]

In the last two years about £8k over 4 horse - 3 of which had to be PTS. 1 with a brain tumour following retirement due to intermittent lameness 2 years ago, my youngster with chronic navicular disease and DJD in August and most recently my old boy with a sacroilliac problem, arthritis and spavin last week. My new youngster is currently beign treated for a serious tendon injury which he incurred only two weeks after I bought him.
Relating this to a post I read further up - I really, honestly look after my horses well. I feel like I am doomed with horses but could not do anything more to stop these things happening, except give up. Then what would I do? I could probably give up my job and still have more money than I do now!

 

[ExRacers]

Over £1000 this year between 2 nags & only 2 of the bills were worth claiming for.

Have 3 totalling £200 sitting waiting to hit my credit card this week as well

 

[henryhorn]

Thousands...

We do a lot ourselves such as cuts/lamenesses etc but basic stuff like tet injections, microchipping all adds up. We try to get lots done on one visit if poss as it cuts down the charges.
My vet is one in a million so I'm not complaining about his prices, but this year the invoices are probably the cost of paying one of his part time nurse's wages...

 

[lloyd4]

i've had my horse five years and only had the vet out for injections, he's never been lame or sick(touch wood he never will) He's 17 next year.

 

[Solstar]

erm.. il just tot it up now...

for solo-
£395 in jan for his cellulitis
£85 in sept for his teeth and booster

for red-
£95 in sept for his first jab and teeth
£65 in nov for his second jab.

not too bad, thank god!